‘This Is As Real As It Gets’: FL Hospital CEO On COVID-19 Crisis | Rachel Maddow | MSNBC

Leah Carpenter, nurse and CEO of Memorial Hospital West in Pembroke Pines, Florida, talks about the strain that the COVID-19 crisis has put on her hospital and particularly on the staff of health care workers. Aired on 7/14/2020.
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'This Is As Real As It Gets': FL Hospital CEO On COVID-19 Crisis | Rachel Maddow | MSNBC

86 comments

  1. They should run ads showing all the body bags lingering in hospital hallways and mobile refrigerator trucks. Maybe that would make these idiots understand there are more important things than getting your nails done.

    1. It simply won’t matter to the idiots. They will come up with a myriad of BS: “They dump ALL bodies there…even if they die of something other than COVID-19!”; “Fake numbers to scare and control us…”; “EVERYONE that dies of COVID-19 has a pre-existing condition, so if you are healthy, no worries!”; “We need to NOT wear a mask, so herd immunity can happen!!”; “99% don’t get that sick to require hospitalization!”; “It is just a flu!” …. the list goes on and on. These fools think that they know more than doctors, nurses, scientists. They WILL NOT change their attitude. Even if it hits home, when they or their family and friends start dying.

    2. @mtb416 if we completely did a very strict lock down for 2 months tho it would have been gone and they could have gone back to work. Instead we didn’t now it will never go away. We need to put in the work, it stinks for the jobs, but the economy can’t come back until it’s gone.

    3. SWEETWATER FLORIDA CONSERVATIVE COMMUNITY CENTER AINT AFRAID!!! JAWL HURR?? AINT BEING WEIRD…JUST LOVE THE FLAG!!! LOVE TRUMP!!! LOVE JESUS!!!! REELECTION HERE WE COME!!! #MASKTYRANNY #DRAINTHESWAMP!!! JAWL HURR??? AS FAMOUS CONSERVATIVE RAPPER SLINKY J SAYS “TRUMPS GONNA SHOW YA FOOLS WHATS UP!!!

  2. Our doctors need to scrap their bedside manners & start scaring the sh&% outta ppl to get americans in line. It works for Trump and Fox news.

    1. Simple solution. If you don’t take the necessary steps to protect yourself, you get to pay for all your medical expenses yourself.

    2. SWEETWATER FLORIDA CONSERVATIVE COMMUNITY CENTER AINT AFRAID!!! JAWL HURR?? AINT BEING WEIRD…JUST LOVE THE FLAG!!! LOVE TRUMP!!! LOVE JESUS!!!! REELECTION HERE WE COME!!! #MASKTYRANNY #DRAINTHESWAMP!!! JAWL HURR??? AS FAMOUS CONSERVATIVE RAPPER SLINKY J SAYS “TRUMPS GONNA SHOW YA FOOLS WHATS UP!!!

  3. She looks exhausted literally worn out healthcare workers have been taken advantage of this entire pandemic i don’t think we can ever repay them

    1. @Nuna Morais guess also ignored the polictictions saying “come to china town” when a pandemic was STARTING!

    2. @RFI-Crypto Lab huh, that’s funny I work for a hospital and they are full.

      Sure, the front isn’t full because anything elective has shut down.

    3. @RFI-Crypto Lab She got laid off?
      Seriously, if there are people who listen to your sh%t and cause the infection to spread, their blood will be on your head. I mean that.

    4. SWEETWATER FLORIDA CONSERVATIVE COMMUNITY CENTER AINT AFRAID!!! JAWL HURR?? AINT BEING WEIRD…JUST LOVE THE FLAG!!! LOVE TRUMP!!! LOVE JESUS!!!! REELECTION HERE WE COME!!! #MASKTYRANNY #DRAINTHESWAMP!!! JAWL HURR??? AS FAMOUS CONSERVATIVE RAPPER SLINKY J SAYS “TRUMPS GONNA SHOW YA FOOLS WHATS UP!!!

  4. I will never vote for a Republican Senators, they are incompetent to hold any power in a State!

    1. @Jim Battersbee …..we are allowed snacks from the kitchen in the middle of the night. But we take the long way there 😉

    2. @Ken Rimmer …….brace yourself kendoll. this ones goin sting a little!
      Almost 4 million jobs created since election.
      More Americans are now employed than ever recorded before in our history.
      We have created more than 400,000 manufacturing jobs since my election.
      Manufacturing jobs growing at the fastest rate in more than THREE DECADES.
      Economic growth last quarter hit 4.2 percent.
      New unemployment claims recently hit a 49-year low.
      Median household income has hit highest level ever recorded.
      African-American unemployment has recently achieved the lowest rate ever recorded.
      Hispanic-American unemployment is at the lowest rate ever recorded.
      Asian-American unemployment recently achieved the lowest rate ever recorded.
      Women’s unemployment recently reached the lowest rate in 65 years.
      Youth unemployment has recently hit the lowest rate in nearly half a century.
      Lowest unemployment rate ever recorded for Americans without a high school diploma.
      Under my Administration, veterans’ unemployment recently reached its lowest rate in nearly 20 years.
      Almost 3.9 million Americans have been lifted off food stamps since the election.
      The Pledge to America’s Workers has resulted in employers committing to train more than 4 million Americans. We are committed to VOCATIONAL education.
      95 percent of U.S. manufacturers are optimistic about the future—the highest ever.
      Retail sales surged last month, up another 6 percent over last year.
      Signed the biggest package of tax cuts and reforms in history. After tax cuts, over $300 billion poured back in to the U.S. in the first quarter alone.
      As a result of our tax bill, small businesses will have the lowest top marginal tax rate in more than 80 years.
      Helped win U.S. bid for the 2028 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles.
      Helped win U.S.-Mexico-Canada’s united bid for 2026 World Cup.
      Opened ANWR and approved Keystone XL and Dakota Access Pipelines.
      Record number of regulations eliminated.
      Enacted regulatory relief for community banks and credit unions.
      Obamacare individual mandate penalty GONE.
      My Administration is providing more affordable healthcare options for Americans through association health plans and short-term duration plans.
      Last month, the FDA approved more affordable generic drugs than ever before in history. And thanks to our efforts, many drug companies are freezing or reversing planned price increases.
      We reformed the Medicare program to stop hospitals from overcharging low-income seniors on their drugs—saving seniors hundreds of millions of dollars this year alone.
      Signed Right-To-Try legislation.
      Secured $6 billion in NEW funding to fight the opioid epidemic.
      We have reduced high-dose opioid prescriptions by 16 percent during my first year in office.
      Signed VA Choice Act and VA Accountability Act, expanded VA telehealth services, walk-in-clinics, and same-day urgent primary and mental health care.
      Increased our coal exports by 60 percent; U.S. oil production recently reached all-time high.
      United States is a net natural gas exporter for the first time since 1957.
      Withdrew the United States from the job-killing Paris Climate Accord.
      Cancelled the illegal, anti-coal, so-called Clean Power Plan.
      Secured record $700 billion in military funding; $716 billion next year.
      NATO allies are spending $69 billion more on defense since 2016.
      Process has begun to make the Space Force the 6th branch of the Armed Forces.
      Confirmed more circuit court judges than any other new administration.
      Confirmed Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch and nominated Judge Brett Kavanaugh.
      Withdrew from the horrible, one-sided Iran Deal.
      Moved U.S. Embassy to Jerusalem.
      Protecting Americans from terrorists with the Travel Ban, upheld by Supreme Court.
      Issued Executive Order to keep open Guantanamo Bay.
      Concluded a historic U.S.-Mexico Trade Deal to replace NAFTA. And negotiations with Canada are underway as we speak.
      Reached a breakthrough agreement with the E.U. to increase U.S. exports.
      Imposed tariffs on foreign steel and aluminum to protect our national security.
      Imposed tariffs on China in response to China’s forced technology transfer, intellectual property theft, and their chronically abusive trade practices.
      Net exports are on track to increase by $59 billion this year.
      Improved vetting and screening for refugees, and switched focus to overseas resettlement.
      We have begun BUILDING THE WALL. Republicans want STRONG BORDERS and NO CRIME. Democrats want OPEN BORDERS which equals MASSIVE CRIME.

    3. @Xin Chen …..what am i supposed to keep track? More rules? you lazy liberals like rules and being told what to do. You like wearing a mask. That way you can pretend ur in a war simulation. You are on a mission soldier and you have to wear your mask until the enemy is defeated. i got news for you. it is not ever over. this is the new normal. It is like Stockholm Syndrome. Our masters will wreck our economy, confiscate our weapons, clean out our bank accounts and by nov we will beg for dementia biden.

    4. …………THE PEOPLE THAT GOT SCHITTT ON IN N.C. BY DEMONCRAT, ROY COOPER, DON’T THINK SO.

    5. SWEETWATER FLORIDA CONSERVATIVE COMMUNITY CENTER AINT AFRAID!!! JAWL HURR?? AINT BEING WEIRD…JUST LOVE THE FLAG!!! LOVE TRUMP!!! LOVE JESUS!!!! REELECTION HERE WE COME!!! #MASKTYRANNY #DRAINTHESWAMP!!! JAWL HURR??? AS FAMOUS CONSERVATIVE RAPPER SLINKY J SAYS “TRUMPS GONNA SHOW YA FOOLS WHATS UP!!!

  5. Trumps about to control the information coming out of hospitals now so like a miracle its about to go away.

    1. Jeffrey Meade I listen to the very words coming from TRUMP’S mouth myself. He’s the biggest moron I’ve ever seen and heard.

    2. @Marty Baldwin HA! The biggest morons are always democrats. Biden will “Get the children to market”??? He also called Arizona a city. You morons are repeating the same mistake of running someone who simply cannot function and has obvious diminished capacity.

    3. Haha I Beleive the opposite if what trump says he’s been denying reality sinse well all his life

    4. @Jeffrey Meade – why don’t you just call a hospital and ask them or better yet lick doorknob. See what happens. I dare you.

  6. I watched this live tonight ,as a retired nurse my heart is breaking for the Dr’s and nurses and first responders,we have a president who has utterly failed us with this virus ,but in every way possible ,may god bless them in this frightening time for our world,I still have friends that are working in an acute setting ,they are just as overwhelmed as this woman is stating.

  7. What will you do when these Hero’s and Heroins are worn down by exhaustion and start dropping like flies .Do you really think Dopey will come to your rescue or any of his Sycophants Like Tucker& Hanity . America your losing the war against Covid19 because your president is sabotaging his own response Because he thinks it helps him if Americans are dying WTF has gone wrong there I just don’t understand it

    1. Almost 4 million jobs created since election.
      More Americans are now employed than ever recorded before in our history.
      We have created more than 400,000 manufacturing jobs since my election.
      Manufacturing jobs growing at the fastest rate in more than THREE DECADES.
      Economic growth last quarter hit 4.2 percent.
      New unemployment claims recently hit a 49-year low.
      Median household income has hit highest level ever recorded.
      African-American unemployment has recently achieved the lowest rate ever recorded.
      Hispanic-American unemployment is at the lowest rate ever recorded.
      Asian-American unemployment recently achieved the lowest rate ever recorded.
      Women’s unemployment recently reached the lowest rate in 65 years.
      Youth unemployment has recently hit the lowest rate in nearly half a century.
      Lowest unemployment rate ever recorded for Americans without a high school diploma.
      Under my Administration, veterans’ unemployment recently reached its lowest rate in nearly 20 years.
      Almost 3.9 million Americans have been lifted off food stamps since the election.
      The Pledge to America’s Workers has resulted in employers committing to train more than 4 million Americans. We are committed to VOCATIONAL education.
      95 percent of U.S. manufacturers are optimistic about the future—the highest ever.
      Retail sales surged last month, up another 6 percent over last year.
      Signed the biggest package of tax cuts and reforms in history. After tax cuts, over $300 billion poured back in to the U.S. in the first quarter alone.
      As a result of our tax bill, small businesses will have the lowest top marginal tax rate in more than 80 years.
      Helped win U.S. bid for the 2028 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles.
      Helped win U.S.-Mexico-Canada’s united bid for 2026 World Cup.
      Opened ANWR and approved Keystone XL and Dakota Access Pipelines.
      Record number of regulations eliminated.
      Enacted regulatory relief for community banks and credit unions.
      Obamacare individual mandate penalty GONE.
      My Administration is providing more affordable healthcare options for Americans through association health plans and short-term duration plans.
      Last month, the FDA approved more affordable generic drugs than ever before in history. And thanks to our efforts, many drug companies are freezing or reversing planned price increases.
      We reformed the Medicare program to stop hospitals from overcharging low-income seniors on their drugs—saving seniors hundreds of millions of dollars this year alone.
      Signed Right-To-Try legislation.
      Secured $6 billion in NEW funding to fight the opioid epidemic.
      We have reduced high-dose opioid prescriptions by 16 percent during my first year in office.
      Signed VA Choice Act and VA Accountability Act, expanded VA telehealth services, walk-in-clinics, and same-day urgent primary and mental health care.
      Increased our coal exports by 60 percent; U.S. oil production recently reached all-time high.
      United States is a net natural gas exporter for the first time since 1957.
      Withdrew the United States from the job-killing Paris Climate Accord.
      Cancelled the illegal, anti-coal, so-called Clean Power Plan.
      Secured record $700 billion in military funding; $716 billion next year.
      NATO allies are spending $69 billion more on defense since 2016.
      Process has begun to make the Space Force the 6th branch of the Armed Forces.
      Confirmed more circuit court judges than any other new administration.
      Confirmed Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch and nominated Judge Brett Kavanaugh.
      Withdrew from the horrible, one-sided Iran Deal.
      Moved U.S. Embassy to Jerusalem.
      Protecting Americans from terrorists with the Travel Ban, upheld by Supreme Court.
      Issued Executive Order to keep open Guantanamo Bay.
      Concluded a historic U.S.-Mexico Trade Deal to replace NAFTA. And negotiations with Canada are underway as we speak.
      Reached a breakthrough agreement with the E.U. to increase U.S. exports.
      Imposed tariffs on foreign steel and aluminum to protect our national security.
      Imposed tariffs on China in response to China’s forced technology transfer, intellectual property theft, and their chronically abusive trade practices.
      Net exports are on track to increase by $59 billion this year.
      Improved vetting and screening for refugees, and switched focus to overseas resettlement.
      We have begun BUILDING THE WALL. Republicans want STRONG BORDERS and NO CRIME. Democrats want OPEN BORDERS which equals MASSIVE CRIME.

    2. @Delph Zouzou ….yes. thats what im talking about. fox news says nobody is dying in Florida. Take it up w/them……Breaking News: Trump is firing tony fauci next week. this is why i always say facts are the facts.
      i am the facts king. Nobody has ever debunked my facts. Nobody. Some have tried.
      All have failed. Just like you. the corona virus is fake. the pandemic is fake. Proof is facts.
      Facts are Facts.
      Google: us10130701b2 Yes. Google it stupid. Next time do your homework!
      ………..Facts are Facts. Obama and biden authorized the 3.7 million to wuhan lab
      in 2015……Dr. Fauci is a fraud. Obama under investigation. the pandemic is fake.
      Facts are Facts. The psychology of mind control and “Force Mask Policy”?
      Brainwashed by the vaccine pharmacies.
      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dF0LL3TClMg Proof is Facts!

    1. @TheEvertw  @TheEvertw  you are wrong Wang Li asked for proof. And I quote: “what’s your proof/ source”. That’s what he said, read the comments above.

      If someone asks for proof I provide proof.

    2. Everyone in China put on a mask – they had no choice -police drones were used IT WORKED not hiding figures like Trump is determined to do

    3. @Jasmin A.
      Well, we see why it became an epidemic in the US, the American Virus seems to enjoy itself there even more than China.

    4. @Jasmin A. Right now that matters where came from.. Right now how can stop spreading covid 19. I’m living Florida this situation will be more dangerous to everyone. Florida governor didn’t anything for medical workers. We taking test but get result 5-6 days.

    5. @Jasmin A. compared to USA china did stop it on a dime. What’s Americas problem? We all know what it is.

  8. Florida’s own Governor will NOT accept responsibility for his lack of leadership with this virus. He’s blaming it on migrant workers! Disgusting!

    1. @Lucky Just like the two hospital ships the central park hospital, and the thousands of ventilators, none of which were actually needed, the fridge trucks were a prop. If my brain capacity is limited, yours, in comparison is non existant. Your morbidity resides mostly in your fat head. Get a life, loser. Next life, pick the winning side.

    2. @Norma Hernandez Yep, a coward waiting for some lefty loser to take a shot at him. While you cower behind your computer like the pathetic loser you are.

  9. Imagine the mind of a trumpet that sees this catastrophe and thinks Trump is doing a good job

    1. I need not imagine a sheep. For they fill every gap of freedom with their commie ways.

      Obey.
      Do as told.
      FEAR!.
      Hush, the Teleprompter gods are speaking.
      Take in there non stop driving in of the Plandemic.
      “Breaking! Spike in leaves falling somewhere on earth due to [insert a covid narrative].”

      “Cases spike” “cases surge” cases cases cases.  Illness and mortality is too low, in response to pump the Plandemic its all about the “cases” now.

      I will summerize news for this year.  Ahhhhh! COVID-19!  A group here… covid “cases” spike.  A group there… covid “cases” surge.  The goal in this phase of the Plandemic is “cases”.  News will not assert that those that showed freedom became sick or tested positive.  News will just plant that seed into your mind.  End of summary.

      Ignore decades of CDC statistics.
      Worship your covid stricken celebrities.

      Pay your income tax, state tax, sales tax, gas tax, property tax, hoa fees, car registration, parking fines.
      Look into the flashy light thing now.

      Back to sleep you go. But before you do try viewing these videos.

       https://youtu.be/xqCzMrl8ouQ

      https://youtu.be/ngg5kRRY_40

       https://youtu.be/y_1viqc1GgQ

       https://youtu.be/gUXUU_qoApw

       https://youtu.be/O3nnSVvjClM

       https://youtu.be/_2yiX5pvyog

  10. In any confrontation. You relieve the frontline defenders with respite. You bring them to the rear and replace them with new energy. Then rotate. The ones you depend on for medical assurance are dying. There is no capacity to replace the frontline.

    1. Yeah. Scary stuff. In the two months that Covid lasted in my country, it was touch and go. I am sad to say that for you, the worst is yet to come. Every day you delay total lockdown, just makes the catastrophe worse.
      Covid is a bit like a Tsunami. You see the initial wave, and then it just keeps piling on. If you lock down NOW, the worst will be in about 4 weeks. Until then, it will just keep piling on. And you already are at full capacity…
      I’d order a whole lot of body bags and start digging some mass graves.

    1. And to add the cherry on top, the universe will make him suffer for putting people in danger and face deaths. Watch how it unravels.

    2. SWEETWATER FLORIDA CONSERVATIVE COMMUNITY CENTER AINT AFRAID!!! JAWL HURR?? AINT BEING WEIRD…JUST LOVE THE FLAG!!! LOVE TRUMP!!! LOVE JESUS!!!! REELECTION HERE WE COME!!! #MASKTYRANNY #DRAINTHESWAMP!!! JAWL HURR??? AS FAMOUS CONSERVATIVE RAPPER SLINKY J SAYS “TRUMPS GONNA SHOW YA FOOLS WHATS UP!!!

  11. I’m thinking if we ever get out of this pandemic, maybe we should make a holiday for healthcare workers. They deserve more!

    1. Yes , should be getting hazard pay . You show the best of being human. At a time when we need it most .

    2. SWEETWATER FLORIDA CONSERVATIVE COMMUNITY CENTER AINT AFRAID!!! JAWL HURR?? AINT BEING WEIRD…JUST LOVE THE FLAG!!! LOVE TRUMP!!! LOVE JESUS!!!! REELECTION HERE WE COME!!! #MASKTYRANNY #DRAINTHESWAMP!!! JAWL HURR??? AS FAMOUS CONSERVATIVE RAPPER SLINKY J SAYS “TRUMPS GONNA SHOW YA FOOLS WHATS UP!!!

    1. Not most, just too many…..we make up for lack of education be being stubborn and willful…..such will power….

    2. ARIZONA, FLORIDA AND OTHER STATES NEEDS TO HAVE A MASS CIVIL LAW SUIT AGAINST THEIR GOVERNOR FOR NOT FOLLOWING THE CDC REGULATIONS AND KILLING THEIR PEOPLE OVER THE MONEY AND POLITICS

    3. As horrible it must be to have a tube shoved down your throat for oxygen, these anti-maskers should NEVER be allowed to get one.

  12. The late Carl Sagan’s greatest fear for America was ‘scientific illiteracy’, but trump, his spineless GOP’s, and his group of trumpsters’ antipathy to science is a far greater danger to the well-being of America!😠😠😠”

    1. Actually the scientific illiteracy is a big part of the trumpsters problem.
      One part stubbornness, one part stupidity.. these are the components needed for a trump-like figure to succeed in destroying the U.S.

  13. ‘When the heat comes it will magically disappear…hopefully’
    – public enemy number one

    1. Anyone with half a brain would know that is not true. Floridians know this, but they blindly follow Fox news and their dear leader.

    2. SWEETWATER FLORIDA CONSERVATIVE COMMUNITY CENTER AINT AFRAID!!! JAWL HURR?? AINT BEING WEIRD…JUST LOVE THE FLAG!!! LOVE TRUMP!!! LOVE JESUS!!!! REELECTION HERE WE COME!!! #MASKTYRANNY #DRAINTHESWAMP!!! JAWL HURR??? AS FAMOUS CONSERVATIVE RAPPER SLINKY J SAYS “TRUMPS GONNA SHOW YA FOOLS WHATS UP!!!

  14. kudos to this medical corp for promoting a woman RN to such a high position. She knows what the floors are like, and is not just some paper-pusher. Bless her and her staff.

    1. Amen sister! Tired of seeing highly paid corporates who have either never been or haven’t been on the floor for 20 years, make decisions effecting staff and patients, without questioning the consequences. Save them so much time and money if they would just allow for input from those of us on the lower rung of the ladder to have a voice.

  15. As a Nurse Practitioner /midwife I am horrified and disgusted that the USA, that touts itself as the best health and Medical care in the world is treating their Health Care Professionals like this. A 12 hour shift is so hard and having to do extra shifts because of poor leadership and management of a Pandemic which The WHO has been warning about for years is inexcusable. Most countries had a Task force in place in response to warnings of a possible Pandemic and still many countries fumbled their response.
    The WHO has mainly American officers on secondment from CDC or various Universities, Maria Van Kerkhove, the WHO’s leading expert on coronaviruses, is American . The U.S. has always had an extraordinary influence at the WHO to the extent that other countries have complained about American influence.
    The USA has a problem with the WHO, fine, do what Australia and the EU have done, call for an investigation into the cause of this Pandemic. WHO fumbled their response. Then call for an investigation as other countries have done.
    I live in a country that values human lives. We mourn every covid death. 108 at last count. A 90 year old Grandmother and Great Grandmother died today. Yes I also know each and every death from Covid.
    I always believed that the USA had those values. The TV and movies always says that . Yet the last 6 months has shown the World just how little value you place on your Grandparents, your parents and if Trump gets his way, on your children and their teachers.

  16. ARIZONA, FLORIDA AND OTHER STATES NEEDS TO HAVE A MASS CIVIL LAW SUIT AGAINST THEIR GOVERNOR FOR NOT FOLLOWING THE CDC REGULATIONS AND KILLING THEIR PEOPLE OVER THE MONEY AND POLITICS

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